1gwendetenebre
I, the Vampire, Henry Kuttner
Discussion begins March 1, 2023.
First published in the February 1937 issue of Weird Tales.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?63343
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
Terror in the House: The Early Kuttner, Volume One
Weird Vampire Tales
The Vampire Omnibus
ONLINE VERSIONS
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_29/Issue_2/I,_the_Vampire
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
No authorized online audio versions found to date.
MISCELLANY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kuttner
https://www.tor.com/2013/04/30/neil-gaiman-and-f-paul-wilson-discuss-why-theyre-...
https://www.blackgate.com/2016/12/06/a-neglected-master-the-best-of-henry-kuttne...
https://tinyurl.com/mwbvct6r
Discussion begins March 1, 2023.
First published in the February 1937 issue of Weird Tales.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?63343
SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS
Terror in the House: The Early Kuttner, Volume One
Weird Vampire Tales
The Vampire Omnibus
ONLINE VERSIONS
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_29/Issue_2/I,_the_Vampire
ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS
No authorized online audio versions found to date.
MISCELLANY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kuttner
https://www.tor.com/2013/04/30/neil-gaiman-and-f-paul-wilson-discuss-why-theyre-...
https://www.blackgate.com/2016/12/06/a-neglected-master-the-best-of-henry-kuttne...
https://tinyurl.com/mwbvct6r
2paradoxosalpha
Yikes. Trouble with the checkerboard floor perspective on that cover!
3gwendetenebre
Read this out of Terror in the House: The Early Kuttner, Volume One. Haffner Press does nice work! I think I had this confused with a similarly titled story by either Matheson or maybe Bloch that had a very predictable EC Comics-style ending. This vampire tale turned out to be a pleasant surprise, then, due in part to the fairly realistic Hollywood mise-en-scène. Sandra Colter's ghastly death by cremation was another nice touch. Perhaps Mart should have called in John Thunstone for some expert occult assistance! I kept thinking that this story would have made a nice period-piece TV movie-of-the-week in the 1970s, a la Curtis Harrington's THE DEAD DON'T DIE (1975).
4AndreasJ
Finally managed to finish this one today, from Wikisource.
I liked it too. The ending is perhaps not the epitome of originally, but Kuttner tells it with conviction, and it's certainly far more satisfying than knife-wielding heroics on Mart's part would have been.
(And I fear I mischaracterized it when nominating it, claiming it was narrated from the vampire's point of view. Not sure if I had any reason beyond the title to assume so.)
Sonya seems an unlikely name for a girl from medieval Austria.
I liked it too. The ending is perhaps not the epitome of originally, but Kuttner tells it with conviction, and it's certainly far more satisfying than knife-wielding heroics on Mart's part would have been.
(And I fear I mischaracterized it when nominating it, claiming it was narrated from the vampire's point of view. Not sure if I had any reason beyond the title to assume so.)
Sonya seems an unlikely name for a girl from medieval Austria.
5housefulofpaper
I read this online was well. I really enjoyed it. I suppose it's a sign of age that I feel more at home with a 20th Century authorial voice than a comtemporary one (and also, because of America's cultural hegemony, feeling that I know Hollywood and Los Angleles intimately).
I have to confess that the ending managed to surprise me, because I thought Mart was going to be vampirised in an EC comics, bleak ending kind of way - the more so because the story's title seemed to suddenly have relevance - "I" (the narrator) am the vampire - but Kuttner fooled me.
I have to confess that the ending managed to surprise me, because I thought Mart was going to be vampirised in an EC comics, bleak ending kind of way - the more so because the story's title seemed to suddenly have relevance - "I" (the narrator) am the vampire - but Kuttner fooled me.
